Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges Wednesday against two former St Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies closely associated with a private company that ran a work release program for former ...

Clearfield County will allow some pre-trial detainees to be eligible for the Clearfield County Jail’s work release program, President Judge Paul E. Cherry announced at Tuesday’s meeting of ...

A federal grand jury is investigating former St Tammany Parish Sheriff Rodney "Jack" Strain and one of the privately-run work release programs he ran, owned by the children of some of Strain's top ...

HOW THIS PROGRAM WORKS. FOR A COMPANY THAT MAKES BOXES, ATLAS CONTAINER CORP IS REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE OF ONE. BY HIRING INMATES TO THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM AND PAYING THEM THE SAME AS OTHER ...

Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are paid not in dollars, but cents. Minimum wage laws don’t apply behind bars, so some people scrub toilets for less than a quarter an hour. But one ...